Everyone here in DC is talking about whether to rent out their house, or rooms in their house, for the inauguration. I knew the fever had spread to Baltimore. But I didn't know it had gone this far.
And they say it's 1.5 hours from DC. This is a horrible lie; from "just over the bridge from Philly", DC is two and a half hours with no traffic, probably three hours on a normal day, and who knows how long on January 20.
I have taken I-95 south from just north of Philadelphia a few times, and I don't think I ever reached D.C in less than 2 hours. You have to pass through the rest of Jersey, Delaware and the fat part of Maryland just to get to D.C, and this isn't even accounting for the sure to be gargantuan traffic jam around that time.
Only way it is 1.5 hours is if they are throwing in Accela train tickets. But on the day of the Inauguration, it could take you an hour and half from Silver Spring to get downtown.
Leaving aside the obligatory Derangement Syndrome sufferers... [/roll eyes]
This is really not much different than what folks out here in Colorado were doing during the DNC. Houses and condos were on-line to rent from as far away as Pueblo, Vail, and Cheyenne. (Yes. Cheyenne is in a different state. Full marks in Geography today, Milo.) And the furthest of those cities is about a hard 3 hours from downtown Denver, including the inevitable traffic, but no one even bothered to mention the commute time in their posts.
OT: That comment of the week of yours... Amanda Marcotte calling ANYONE an intellectual lightweight is automatically humorous, as she gets out of her depth the second she gets out of the "feminist intellectual elite" wading pool. The fact that she's saying it to you makes it even better.
Well, we have a room we could rent for the inauguration, here in Puget Sound country--just the right place for someone who is not happy about the last election and would rather be somewhere else, even the "other" Washington, when it happens. :-)
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Gee, there's not any enthusiasm for President-elect Obama, eh?
And they say it's 1.5 hours from DC. This is a horrible lie; from "just over the bridge from Philly", DC is two and a half hours with no traffic, probably three hours on a normal day, and who knows how long on January 20.
No way that's an hour and a half from DC. Maybe on the Concorde.
I have taken I-95 south from just north of Philadelphia a few times, and I don't think I ever reached D.C in less than 2 hours. You have to pass through the rest of Jersey, Delaware and the fat part of Maryland just to get to D.C, and this isn't even accounting for the sure to be gargantuan traffic jam around that time.
Only way it is 1.5 hours is if they are throwing in Accela train tickets. But on the day of the Inauguration, it could take you an hour and half from Silver Spring to get downtown.
Soooo.......this enterprising individual is..... what.......guilty of lying to prospective Obama inauguration attendees?
.....and this is different from The One's campaign promises to prospective Obama voters how.....?
Leaving aside the obligatory Derangement Syndrome sufferers... [/roll eyes]
This is really not much different than what folks out here in Colorado were doing during the DNC. Houses and condos were on-line to rent from as far away as Pueblo, Vail, and Cheyenne. (Yes. Cheyenne is in a different state. Full marks in Geography today, Milo.) And the furthest of those cities is about a hard 3 hours from downtown Denver, including the inevitable traffic, but no one even bothered to mention the commute time in their posts.
OT: That comment of the week of yours... Amanda Marcotte calling ANYONE an intellectual lightweight is automatically humorous, as she gets out of her depth the second she gets out of the "feminist intellectual elite" wading pool. The fact that she's saying it to you makes it even better.
Well, we have a room we could rent for the inauguration, here in Puget Sound country--just the right place for someone who is not happy about the last election and would rather be somewhere else, even the "other" Washington, when it happens. :-)